row house

See also: rowhouse and row-house

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Etymology

From row +‎ house.

Noun

row house (plural row houses)

  1. (chiefly US) A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof
    The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down.
    • 1990 August 18, Liz Galst, “The Boston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 9:
      When we meet Jess in the early '50s she's seven, living in a row house crammed against other row houses in a working-class Lancaster, all packed in against the steep hills that populate the English Northwest.

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